Resogun’s innovations are simple but brilliant. I find it fitting that at the dawn of this new generation Sony has decided to anchor its launch to a bedrock gaming experience: the score chase. Not only is it the best of Sony’s Playstation 4 exclusives, it may be the best game on the entire system. It is developer Housemarque’s reimagining of the 80s arcade classic Defender. I finish off a wave of keepers and a green bolt shoots halfway across the level, shattering the glass box of human number 10.Īfter the jump, the disastrous rescue of human number 10. The Nemesis is an agile messenger of destruction spitting bright colored death. My main cannons are upgraded, homing missiles unlocked. The Nemesis knows their flight path well. Green glowing keepers materialize with a warning. Tanks and cannons launch fire into the sky. Fleets of voxel sentients patrol in patterns. Human prisoners are held in glass boxes elevated above a crumbling cylindrical cityscape. Scouting reports call Acis a “derelict city run by the species known only as the sentients,” its primary function “a prisoner processing compound.” The city looks like a collapsing Atlantis, the light an aquatic blue. I’m encircling the darkened dystopia of Acis in the starfighter Nemesis.